Political party to begin campaign to have Ukrainian President Poroshenko impeached

Ukrainian party For Life leader Yevgeny Murayev revealed on Tuesday that his party has begun a campaign to force the impeachment of President Pyotr Poroshenko as he had created a deep crisis in Ukraine.

“We’ll ride throughout the country,” he was quoted by GORDONua website. “We’ll bring people together and collect signatures everywhere. We oppose this institute [presidency] as such because everyone who gets into the presidential office goes mad.”

“I don’t rule out they go there propelled by a dream to build our country but in reality they turn into commonplace thieves,” Murayev said a rally in front of the National Bank building

“Option number one is for Poroshenko to dissolve parliament because of the absence of a ruling majority,” Murayev said. “We all know the Rada does not have [the needed majority of] 226 deputies at present.”

“Option number two is the parliament won’t have 300 deputies if 123 incumbent deputies resign,” he noted. “We’ve launched the gathering of signatures.”

Paul Antonopoulos is a Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies. He has an MA in International Relations and is interested in Great Power Rivalry as well as the International Relations and Political Economy of the Middle East and Latin America.